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UNITED STATES PATENT DEERE..

OLNEY NEVELLLOF DENVER, COLORADO.k`

STOCK-CAR,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,277, dated December28, 1886.

Application filed November 3, 1886. Serial o. 217.592. (No model To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that LOLNEY NEWELL, of Denver, in the county of Arapahoe andState of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Improvement inStock-Cars; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear,and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to cars for the transportation of live stock, andparticularly to that .lis

class of cars in which an upper deck or hinged section is used.

In cars of this'class the upper deck is ordinarily hinged to the sidesof thecars, being made in sections, but at the spaces in the ears leftfor doors some peculiar construction :must be provided for supportingthe deck at this point, and for allowing the deck when folded to leavethe doorways unobstructed.

Heretofore it has been suggested to form the door-sections withsupplemental hinged portions, with their outer ends sliding on`guide-rods, the lower ends of said guide-rods supporting longitudinalbeams, which in turn support transverse sills, for the support of thesections when in theirlowered position. The hinged sections in thisconstruction are folded upon the main sections, and the whole slid tothe top of the car,where they are held in place by hooks engaging witheyes on the upper side of the folded part of the sections. Such anarrangement is objectionablefor many reasons, principally on account ofthe space taken up by the supporting-beams for the door-sections, and,again, for the reason that the fastening device in the top of the car,being secured tothe hinged portions of the door-sections, will not holdthe sections closely to the top of the car, but will let them fall belowthe top a distance equal to the width of the hinged portions.

It is the object of the present invention to improve the details. ofconstruction,whereby more space is obtained within the car, and lessutilized by the upper deck and its supports when folded.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure I is averticalsection taken through the car from side to side.Fig. 2 is a longitudinal verticalseotion of apart of a car, showlasshown in Fig. l.

ing the arrangement of the' slidingdeck sections at the doors. Fig. 3isa horizontal section.

The car represented at Ais of any ordinary and well-known construction.The upper deck .is composed of the sectionsBB, one hinged upon each sideof the car, as usual, and as the width of the car exceeds the height,supplemental` sections are hinged to the main sections, so as to allowthe sections to be swung up ont of the way against the'sides of thecars. Y Vhen this is done the supplemental sections C G will swing upontheir hinges outwardly, as shown, thus permitting the main sections tolie close against the sides of the oar.

When the decks are lowered for use they are supported upon beams DD,which extend across the car, resting at either side upon beams E E,which support the notched ends thereof, The beams D D are capable ofbeingremoved when the decks are folded, and for the'purpose ofsupporting` pivoted so that they can be swung up in order to allow theedge of the deck to pass them when being folded, and also for thepurpose of permitting the ready handling of the -beams in packing orremoving the same.

Instead of being obliged to slide the beams through the loops, as isvthe case when they are made stationary, the ends may be inserted intoone loop, the opposite ends lifted, the` loop at that end swung upwardand outward,

and then dropped under the endsofthe beams. Y

It is desirable to' have these supporting-loops at one side instead ofin the center, as in that position they offer an obstruction to thepassage of any one through the car.

Instead of the hinged sections as heretofore constructed at thedoorspaces, I arrange sliding sections GG, each section of a width equalto one-half the width of the car, these sections not being provided withthe suplemental sections, as in the main portion of the car. Se-

cured to the inner side of the door-posts of the car at each of the fourcorners are rods a a, extending from a little below the center ofthe IOOcar to thetop. A U-shaped loop, a', eno'ircles these rods, being securedto the outer corners of each section, which are adapted to be slid upand down on said rods,which serve to hold them and guide them in theirsliding movement. The ends of the sections extend inwardly beyond theopening of the door, so as to be supported upon the beam which alsosupports the end of the adjoining section. When the sections are slid tothe top of the car, catches b upon the sides hold them in place, and thecenters are supported from eyebolts, being slotted, as at c, for thispurpose, a fastening-pin, d,- passing through the 'eye after it haspassed through the slots in the edges of the sections.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isu l. In a doublevdeckcar, the combination, with the sections hinged to the sides of the car,and the supporting-beams therefor, of the sections opposite the doors,arranged toslide upward toward the cei1ing,and supported in their lowerposition upon the same beams which support the adjacent sections,substantially as described.

2. In a double-deck car, the combination,with door sections adapted toslide up or down on guide-rods, and to be supported in their lowerposition upon the same beams which support the adjacent sections, ofcatches b, for support.

removable supporting-beams, of pivoted loops ,j

or hangers for holding said beams, arranged at one side of thecar,substantiallyas described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.v

OLNEY N EWELL. Witnesses:

L. P. MERRIMAN, JOSEPH MILNER.

